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Suluk

سلوك
Suluk سلوك
Town
	Suluk nahiya within Raqqa Governorate
	Suluk Location in Syria
	Coordinates: 36°35′57″N 39°07′43″E / 36.5992°N 39.1286°E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Raqqa
District	Tell Abyad
Subdistrict	Suluk
Control	Turkey; Syrian Interim Government
Population (2004)
• Town	7,825
• Subdistrict	44,131
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
P-Code	C5843
Geocode	SY110201
City Qrya Pcode	C5843

Suluk (Arabic: سلوك, romanized: Sulūk) is a town within the Tell Abyad District of Raqqa Governorate in Syria. Suluk is close to the border with Turkey. The population of the town is predominantly Arab.^[2]^[3]

History

In the early 13th century, during Ayyubid rule, the medieval geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi noted that Suluk was "a town of Syria".^[4]

Syrian civil war

In June 2015, Suluk was taken over by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in the course of their Tell Abyad offensive.^[5] Kurdish YPG forces were accused of expelling the entire population of the town (35,000 people), although they allowed only 10,000 of them to return,^[2] Furthermore, Amnesty International accused YPG of "razing" nearby villages,^[6] and "ethnic cleansing" of Arabs.^[3] They have denied the Amnesty report, calling it "biased, unprofessional and politicized" as it made no mention of the human rights violations by the Islamic State.^[7]

On 27 February 2016, fighters of the Islamic State attacked Suluk, the village Hammam at‑Turkuman and Tall Abyad.^[8] At this point, the towns were not directly at the front to ISIL-held territory anymore and the jihadists were able to expel the Kurdish People's Protection Units in this surprise attack from Suluk and Hammam at-Turkuman. Kurdish security forces soon were able to encircle the attackers and recaptured the villages on March 3, 2016.^[9] One day before the recapture, IS jihadists executed 15 civilians with the charge of "Refusing to corporate with IS and helping the YPG earlier".^[10]

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 70 fighters from the Islamic State and 20 Kurdish fighters were killed during the clashes.^[11]

A spokesman of the YPG, Redur Xelil, accused Turkey of supporting the terrorists because some of them infiltrated from the Turkish border to the north. Turkey denied the accusations.^[9]

During the Turkish offensive in north-east Syria in October 2019,^[12] Suluk was captured by Turkey and the Syrian National Army.^[13]

Climate

Climate data for Suluk
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	10.7 (51.3)	13.1 (55.6)	17.7 (63.9)	23.4 (74.1)	29.9 (85.8)	35.7 (96.3)	39.2 (102.6)	38.8 (101.8)	34.6 (94.3)	27.7 (81.9)	19.5 (67.1)	12.5 (54.5)	25.2 (77.4)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	1.2 (34.2)	2.2 (36.0)	5.1 (41.2)	9.1 (48.4)	13.8 (56.8)	18.3 (64.9)	21.1 (70.0)	20.6 (69.1)	16.1 (61.0)	11.1 (52.0)	5.7 (42.3)	2.6 (36.7)	10.6 (51.1)
Average rainfall mm (inches)	60 (2.4)	46 (1.8)	44 (1.7)	35 (1.4)	25 (1.0)	3 (0.1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (0.0)	17 (0.7)	31 (1.2)	52 (2.0)	314 (12.3)
Source: Climate-Data^[14]